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Pythagoras

Name: Anonymous 2007-06-03 14:23 ID:t7dKdTW3

So we all know that to find the length of a hypotenuse you use the formula A squared + B squared = C squared.  What happens, however, if A and B = 1 ?  Did Pythagoras note this problem?  Is 2 the only number with an infinite decimal for a square root?  How do you find the length of the hypotenuse in this situation?  

Name: Anonymous 2007-06-03 23:43 ID:Heaven

>>14
I made a more specific version of his statement; he said that natural numbers with irrational square roots exist, I said that they exist and that the set of such numbers is equivalent to the set of non-square natural numbers. If you don't see how this adds specificity to his statement, I don't know what else to say - you're either retarded, or you genuinely have no idea what "specific" and "general" mean.

Also, since you won't just shut up and gb2/middleschoolalgebra/, I'm going to point out that Generalization is a well defined part of math and logic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalization_(logic)

Notice how I didn't fucking use it.

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